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Donald Cortez "Don" Cornelius
was an American television show host and producer who was best known as the creator of the nationally syndicated dance/music franchise Soul Train, which he hosted from 1971 to 1993. Cornelius sold the show to MadVision Entertainment in 2008. Cornelius joined Chicago television station WCIU-TV in 1967 and hosted a news program called A Black's View of the News. In 1970 he launched Soul Train on WCIU-TV as a daily local show. The program entered national syndication and moved to Los Angeles the following year.
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In Honor Of Don Cornelius: The 10 Best ‘Soul Train’ Line Dances

Source: Idolator.com

Our hearts are heavy today following the news that Soul Train creator and host Brother Don Cornelius has died at the age of 75. To honor Don’s legacy and the lasting impact he made on music and pop culture (and to cheer ourselves up), we’re taking a look back at our favorite Soul Train line dances. So strap on your highest platform shoes, tease out that ‘fro (with Afro-Sheen, of course) and boogie down along with us

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Diary of an Ex-Soul Train Dancer: Q&A with Former Soul Train Dancer Patricia Davis

Source: SoulTrain.com

Patricia Davis is one of the original members of the Soul Train Gang who danced on the show from nearly its very beginning. A dance icon as well as a fashion icon, she was noted for her 1940s-style outfits and the flowers and butterfly hair pieces she wore in her hair which earned her the nickname “Madame Butterfly.” She was featured in numerous issues of Right On! magazine, had her own monthly column in Rock & Soul magazine, and made an appearance on the television show “The Dating Game”. She also appeared in plays and on TV specials on major networks, had an autobiography written about her and was voted “Soul Train’s Original All Time Diva” at the first annual Soul Train Gang reunion. Indeed, her popularity during and after her time as a Soul Train dancer was unprecedented.

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Why Don Cornelius Matters

Source: National Public Radio

The significance of Don Cornelius to American culture — and to the American culture business — is told nowhere more eloquently than in one brief exchange between Cornelius and singer James Brown, a story that Cornelius himself recalls in VH-1's excellent 2010 documentary Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America. It was the Godfather of Soul's first appearance on Cornelius' then-nascent syndicated TV show — designed to do for soul music and black audiences what American Bandstand had long done for pop music and mainstream audiences. Brown marveled at the professionalism of the production, the flawlessness of its execution.

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The Soul Train Gang Remembers Don Cornelius

Source: SoulTrain.com

The Soul Train dancers, known originally as the Soul Train Gang, are what helped to make the show popular worldwide. Viewers didn’t just watch the show to see the recording artists, but to see the dancers–to see what dance moves and steps they were doing and what outfits they were going to wear. Indeed, the dancers were vital to the popularity and durability of the show and served as a catalyst in the eventual widespread hip-hop dance phenomenon. Several of the dancers had the opportunity to work with Don Cornelius outside of the Soul Train television show and he was a mentor to many of them. Here are tributes by some of the many people who danced on Soul Train over the years and helped to make the show the phenomenon it became.

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'Soul Train' laid the rails of a cultural revolution

Source: USA TODAY

If Dick Clark's American Bandstand was Saturday morning's placid place to play, Soul Train, with its driving music and innovative dancers rooted in the urban scene, was the coolest party you could hope to crash. Its minimalist stage played host to everyone from the Jackson 5 to Elton John. "That show was the centerpiece of my Saturdays," says hip-hop artist Terius "The-Dream" Nash, who co-wrote the Beyoncé hit Single Ladies (Put A Ring on It) and performed on the program in 2005. "Don reminded me of my old band teacher. He could look you in the eye and you felt like he knew what you were going to be."

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Info: Award Night and The Unifics Nomination

Thank you for the nomination for the induction of The Unifics to the legend's Soul Music Hall of Fame. I was just informed the other day. I did not receive the email. Can I possibly receive a copy of the date time and particulars, thank you and again thank you and the association for such an honor. Gregory Cook First tenor, choreographer The original Unifics

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